3. in psychology or psychiatry, conscious or unconscious defenses against change, preventing repressed material from coming into awareness; they can take such forms as forgetfulness, evasions, embarrassment, mental blocks, denial, anger, superficial talk, intellectualization, or intensification of symptoms.
Guaranty vs Guarantee. âGuarantyâ and âguaranteeâ are two English words which are differentiated on the basis of their being a verb and a noun. In modern times, the usages have changed, and the word âguarantyâ is commonly used in legal terms more so than in the common, non-legal English language.
Today, for the heck of it, I investigated the difference between guaranty and guarantee. Hereâs what Bryan Garner says in A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (1995): The distinction in BrE once was that the former [guarantee] is the verb, the latter [guaranty] the noun. Yet guarantee is now commonly used as both n. & v.t. in both AmE and BrE. â¦ .